We have bought our house three years ago. The first task we set was removing all the electrical wiring and putting in a complete new set of wires, outlets, switches etc. Second, we needed to move the bathroom. Third, install a (new) (temporary) kitchen. Of course, various other tasks came along, such as gettting new windows, new floor tiles in the living room, quickstep in the bedrooms, and a whole lot of other stuff. However, the garden remained fairly untouched. Scheduled to be handled after two years, the birth of Elias and the heap outlined above delayed this task somewhat. In the end we decided that by april 2006 we would like to have a decent lawn, nice plants, and a space for Elias to play in the garden.

Sadly, we did not make that deadline. Blame it on the bad weather. But, we did start, and we advanced, albeit slowly. The fact that the previous owner tried fortifying the garden soil with solid rock, concrete and stone did not help much. We've moved at least 2000 kg of that rubbish. The immediate focus always targetted the lawn, but that changed somewhere during March, when we decided to replace the unkempt plants at the end of the garden with a decent wooden fence. Incidentally, said fence was ordered last Saturday, and is planned to be delivered on our driveway somwehere next Friday.

We've levelled the land a bit, and we will order topsoil in the next few days, to level it some more, and to bury the remaining shards that are too small to collect with tools. When all is said and done, I hope to have a lawn at the end of June 2006. We'll see how and if it works out.